Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-12-10
LAST EVENINGS NEWS.
Herr Most Out on $4,000 Bail--Butler
Opposes the Comte de Paris--Woman
Found Nearly Dead--European War
Rumors--Col Lamont Discloses Sc
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owing to the refusal of several statesmen to
join him he is unable to form a cabinet.
At a Catholic demonstration in Vienna a
strong feeling was manifested in favor of the
restoration of papacy to temporal power.
The alarmist rumors are attributed at Paris
to Berlin financiers operating for u fall in
Russian securities and to the desire of Bis
mark to obtain further military recruits.
The military authorities at Halifax say that
the story circulated, Thur, day night,sof the
attempt to explode II gun cotton tank, at
George Island was a hoax
Herr Most was rel ased + day, on $4,000
bail, pending actioi stay of proceedings.
Mrs Ida Hoffman, who went on the Anar-
chist's bond during his last trial, did SO again.
Russia has agreed to accept Duke of Goth
land, second son of the King of Sweden, as a
candidate for the throne of Bulgaria in place
of Prince Ferdinand
A dispatch from Monroe, Iowa. states that
Thomas Ellis, Jr.. who being sued for di
vorce by his wife, shot her fatally, Thurs
day, and then killed himself.
The Austrian Emperor has summoned an
other military council for Friday. Advices
from the frontier say that Russian troops are
suffering much from bad accommodations and
bad food.
The London Morning Post, referring some
what favorably to fair trade agitation, says
the movement is rapidly becoming a power
which must be reckoned with politically and
socially.
A London cable announces that Sir James
Ferguson, under foreign secretary, says that
the government had received no news which
justified the alarmist war rumors prevailing
in Europe.
S. Adams Cleaves a member of the Fresh
man class of Bowdoin College, son-in-law of
Horace Woodman, President of the Saco and
Biddeford Gas Co., died of rheumatic fever
in Saco, Thursday night. He was twenty
two years old.
A Glasgow dispatch says Armstrong
Brothers & Co., the largest operators in the
iron ring, have failed, owing to the rise in
the price of pig iron. The iron market is
excited, and there is great amount of spec
ulation.
The war office of Vienna is taking meas
ures to permanently increase the facilities by
which troops can be moblized and to place
Galicia in better position for defence. Prep
arations will enable large force to be
Colonel Lamont says; THE Pacific Rail
road Commissioners reports are in the Presi-
dents desk and not in the hands of the At
torney General as reported" Whether there
has been any agreement or not he would not
say.
Lee WAY the Chinaman killed in fac
tional quarrel between two societies at San
Francisco, was buried Thursday. The fac
ton to which he belonged made a great dem
onstration and invited an attack from the
enemy, but the police were out in force and
had gatling gun in readiness to quell a
street battle.
For the first time in sixteen years the
Eastern Railroad Stockholders will come
into possession of their property next We'd
nesday Since 1873 the stockholders have
elected only six of the nine directors. Now
they will elect the entire board, from the
fact that they have reduced the debt of the
road to $40, 900 900 by the issue of preferred
stock.
Thursday morning the New York Time,
published dispatches from London, dated
December sth written by ii. Weaver, man
aging director of the Anglo American Tele
graph Company, which emphatically denies
the statement published that the cable poo
is threatened with dissolution owing to some
disagreements with the Western Union Tele
graph Company.
A letter received at Nogales, Ari,, from
some of the recent earthquakes at Bavispe
saws that the entire town has been destroyed
and many persons killed Earthquake
have been Of daily occurrence except during
intervals of two weeks, during which time
people built temporary shanties of refuge OF
hills. Since the cessation some abdob,
houses have been erected, but we're soon de
stroyed People are wild with terror and arr
starving.
VIM. Lynch and John Williams, alias vii
son, two professional cracksmen in Jail a
Pittsfield, Mass, under $40 900 bonds, await
ing the action of the January term of tn,
grand jury, escaped Thursday night by saw
ing the bars and swinging from the high cor
ridors to the window sills by ropes. No trac'
of them has yet been discovered. The sher
if offers reward of four hundred dollars TO
their capture.
| In reply to Gen. Daniel Butterfeld VIII
recently wrote Gen. B. +. Butler, inquirin
I if he would endorse the selection Of Cont
4 de Paris to deliver an address at the reunio
I of armiesat Gettysburg, in July next yea
year, Gen. Butler decidedly objects by say
ing that he would rather agree to any Amel
lean officer of rank or colonel or above VIII
served through the war to be such represents
tive of our soldiers.
The London Standard gives some suppl,
mentary information relative to the forge
Bismarck letters. Ii says that letters sci
back to Bismarck from Russia consisted {
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form, and confidential letters to the rs,
alone. The purpose of the letters seems
have been twofold: To stimulate the Ts,
against Germany. and to create a good wi
between the Tsar and Prince Ferdinand
Ruloaria imminent memhor Of Il